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You can never awaken using the same system that put you to sleep in the first place.

G. I. Gurdjieff

Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere and does not know where to go.
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Awake Beginning Man Realize Unknown
Those who have not sown anything during their responsible life will have nothing to reap in the future.
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Future Life Reap Responsibility
It is the same with everything else, with food, with pleasures, with sleep; with everything there is a limit to what is necessary. After this “sin” begins. This is something that must be grasped, a “sin” is something which is not necessary.
G. I. GURDJIEFF

Beginning Food Limitation Necessary Pleasure Sin Sleep
If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest.
G. I. GURDJIEFF

Faith Friendship Lose Priest
Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote.
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Antidote Energy Laughter Negative Poison
Consciousness is a state in which a man knows all at once everything that he in general knows and in which he can see how little he does know and how many contradictions there are in what he knows.
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Consciousness General Himself Known Man See State
The only type of sexual relations possible are those with someone who is as advanced and capable as oneself.
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Advance Capability Oneself Possible Relation Sexuality Type
As long as our ideas are the same, we will never be apart.
G. I. GURDJIEFF

Apart Ideas Willing
Believe nothing, not even yourself.
G. I. GURDJIEFF

Believe Yourself
I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.
G. I. GURDJIEFF

Believe Verify Yourself
By teaching others you will learn yourself.
G. I. GURDJIEFF

Learning Teaching Yourself
He who has gotten rid of the disease of “tomorrow” has a chance of achieving what he is here for.
G. I. GURDJIEFF

Achievement Chance Himself Sick
If you can serve a cup of tea right, you can do anything.
G. I. GURDJIEFF

Right Serve Tea Yourself
Sincerity is the key which will open the door through which you will see your separate parts, and you will see something quite new. You must go on trying to be sincere. Each day you put on a mask, and you must take it off little by little.
G. I. GURDJIEFF

Day Door Key Mask Open Quite Sincere Yourself
If a sufficient number of people who wanted to stop war really did gather together, they would first of all begin by making war upon those who disagreed with them. And it is still more certain that they would make war on people who also want to stop wars but in another way.
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People Stop Togetherness War Way
Blessed is he who has a soul, blessed is he who has none, but woe and grief to him who has it in embryo.
G. I. GURDJIEFF

Blessing Grief Himself Soul

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